Undo the Veritas mirroring and update from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10

Hi all

I wish to undo the mirroring for root and update the Solaris version from 8 to 10. Since i am lack of knowledge and experience on this, hope you all can help me double check the step and correct me.

Existing disk groups details

root@leo # vxdg list
NAME         STATE           ID
rootdg       enabled              1118297081.6.leo1

root@leo # vxdg list rootdg
Group:     rootdg
dgid:      1118297081.6.leo1
import-id: 0.1
flags:
version:   110
alignment: 512 (bytes)
ssb:            on
detach-policy: global
copies:    nconfig=default nlog=default
config:    seqno=0.1204 permlen=30015 free=30005 templen=7 loglen=4547
config disk c1t0d0s2 copy 1 len=30015 state=clean online
config disk c1t1d0s2 copy 1 len=30015 state=clean online
log disk c1t0d0s2 copy 1 len=4547
log disk c1t1d0s2 copy 1 len=4547


root@leo # vxprint
Disk group: rootdg

TY NAME         ASSOC        KSTATE   LENGTH   PLOFFS   STATE    TUTIL0  PUTIL0
dg rootdg       rootdg       -        -        -        -        -       -

dm rootdg01     c1t0d0s2     -        286698623 -       -        -       -
dm rootdg02     c1t1d0s2     -        286657920 -       -        -       -

sd rootdg01Priv -            ENABLED  40703    -        -        -       PRIVATE

v  rootvol      root         ENABLED  237528192 -       ACTIVE   -       -
pl rootvol-01   rootvol      ENABLED  237528192 -       ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-B0  rootvol-01   ENABLED  1        0        -        -       Block0
sd rootdg01-02  rootvol-01   ENABLED  237528191 1       -        -       -
pl rootvol-02   rootvol      ENABLED  237528192 -       ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-01  rootvol-02   ENABLED  237528192 0       -        -       -

v  swapvol      swap         ENABLED  49129728 -        ACTIVE   -       -
pl swapvol-01   swapvol      ENABLED  49129728 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg01-01  swapvol-01   ENABLED  49129728 0        -        -       -
pl swapvol-02   swapvol      ENABLED  49129728 -        ACTIVE   -       -
sd rootdg02-02  swapvol-02   ENABLED  49129728 0        -        -       -

If i wish to undo this mirroring, is it the below step correct? Kindly advise

# vxdg rmdisk rootdg02
# vxdisk rm c1t1d0s2 
# vxdg destroy rootdg

:confused:

Definitely you will know how to do the upgrade from 8 to 10. Its straight forward.
To remove veritas control, follow this document:
Remove Veritas Volume From Root Disk

Thanks incredible, you help me a lot.
i am using wrong key word to search in the search engine. :stuck_out_tongue:

i search in internet again, and i find a link which is similar the link you give me. Removing Veritas volume manager

By follow the step from the document,(really thanks a lot, incredible):slight_smile: I was able to remove the Veritas from root Disk.
anyway, i will continue to update the Solaris version from 8 to 10.

---------- Post updated at 04:53 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:45 PM ----------

Thanks everyone, i had success to update the Solaris version from 8 to 10. It take around 3 hour to finish update, Its quite straight forward to update using DVD.

Thanks.. Bless U :slight_smile: